Congress

The House Armed Services Subcommittee on Intelligence and Emerging Threats & Capabilities is calling for the Deputy Secretary of Defense to handle oversight of the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center […]

Nora Khalil is leaving the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to become the lead Republican staffer on the Senate Appropriations panel that writes the agency’s annual budget […]

Congressional committees have long been waiting for a finalized version of a report on space acquisition alternatives to be submitted by the Department of the Air Force, and a senior […]

Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), a member of the House Appropriations Committee and co-chair of the Policy and Steering Committee, introduced a bill June 15 that would cut the “bloated” annual […]

After it leaked to the media that the Senate’s fiscal 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) had a sliver of funding for nuclear-explosive test readiness, the five Democrats of Nevada’s […]

The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) included plans to stand up a new Pacific Deterrence Initiatives worth nearly $6 billion in its fiscal year 2021 defense authorization bill, demonstrating the […]

The Senate Armed Services Committee is formally opposing the FCC’s approval of Ligado Networks’ plan for a new commercial L-Band network for 5G infrastructure, including a provision in its fiscal […]

The Senate Armed Services Committee’s markup of the Fiscal Year 2021 defense authorization bill included a number of directives related to the military space portfolio. However, it lacks expected provisions […]

Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) last week introduced a pair of cyber security bills, one aimed at strengthening the nation’s resiliency in the face of a cyber-attack and another to help […]

The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) FY 2021 defense authorization bill largely follows the Navy’s shipbuilding request, but adds long lead funding for other vessels and restricts acquisition for unmanned […]